ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

March 13, 1975

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,

Complainant,

vs.

)

PCB 74—475

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION,

)

PCB 75-35

Respondent.

ORDE!~

OF THE BOARD

(by Mr.

Henss):

On March 11 and March 12, 1975 the parties filed a

flurry of pleadings relating to discovery and relating

to the issues formed by the pleadings.

The new pleadings

include an attempt to amend the Answer and Counter—Claim,

to quash the Subpoena and Motion to Produce Documents.

The

Hearing Officer has authority to rule on all of these

matters and should make the initial ruling prior to con-

sideration of the record by the Board.

This case has been sche~1u1edfor hearing on

the

merits

March 19, 1975 and we are told that the Hearing Officer is

currently out of the city on a vacation so that his ruling

cannot be obtained sufficiently

In advance of the hearing

to allow the parties

to prepare for trial.

The next meeting

of the Pollution Control Board is March

26,

1975.

Under all

of the circumstances the Board has decided to postpone the

hearing until at least one week after the next Board meeting.

This should allow sufficient time

for

the Hearing Officer to

rule on the pre—trial motions and any party to request Board

review of a ruling.

It is Ordered that the hearing currently scheduled for

March 19,

1975 be cancelled and that hearing be rescheduled

by the Hearing Officer not sooner than one week after March 26,

1975.

I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollution Control

Board, hereb~certify the above Order was adopted this

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day of

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1975 bya vote of

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